Short summary - Wee Willie Winkie Sir Joseph Rudyard Kipling. Micro-retelling: The protagonist saves a woman from the Indian "Aborigines", which causes respect for the entire regiment. Percival William Williams, whose name is tenderly "Little Willy Winky" because of the nursery rhyme, is the only son of the 1957 Colonel. He makes friends "Wee Willie Winkie" is a Scottish nursery rhyme. The main character in the rhyme is well-known as a personification of sleep . The poem was written by William Miller and titled "Willie Winkie", first published in Whistle-binkie : Stories for the Fireside in 1841. Wee Willie Winkie is the six-year-old son of the Colonel, and much loved by all in the regiment. He is subject to military discipline, but breaks bounds on his pony to follow a young woman who is riding - very rashly - into tribal territory. Wee Willie Winkie: Directed by John Ford. With Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith, June Lang. Priscilla Williams, a young girl living with her widowed mother and paternal grandfather at the post he commands in northern India, becomes enamored of military life and embroiled in brewing rebellion against the crown in the early 1900's. "I like you. I shall call you Coppy, because of your hair. Do you mind being called Coppy? it is because of ve hair, you know." Here was one of the most embarrassing of Wee Willie Winkie's peculiarities. He would look at a stranger for some time, and then, without warning or explanation, would give him a name. And the name stuck. Wee Willie Winkie is quite an interesting mix of a film, combining the seemingly disparate talents of Rudyard Kipling, John Ford, and Shirley Temple in one film. The very British Mr. Kipling and the very Irish Mr. Ford is odd enough right there. Named after the Scottish nursery rhyme by William Miller, the world in which Lyonel Feininger's Wee Willie Winkie exists is an astute and awe-inducing illumination of a child's imagination, following in the vein of McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland but in a style filtered through odd, kaleidoscopic angles. Each installment finds Willie RPUS.